Steve Ostrow, icon of gay nightlife, dies ages 91

Opera singer was also an entrepreneur who founded Continental Baths in New York, which championed DJs such as Larry Levan and Frankie Knuckles

Steve Ostrow, whose gay bathhouse Continental Baths in New York City had a huge influence on club culture, has died aged 91.

The Sydney Morning Herald announced that he died at a retirement home in the city, where he had moved in the 1980s from his native US.